1st Place (Best Overall)
“A Single Chip Ultra-Wideband Transceiver”
Fred S. Lee, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Raul Blazquez | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Puneet P. Newaskar | Silicon Labs, Austin, TX

2nd Place
“81 MS/s JPEG 2000 Single-Chip Encoder with Rate-Distortion Optimization”
Hung-Chi Fang, Yu-Wei Chang, and Liang-Gee Chen | National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

3rd Place (tie)
“An 80Gbps FPGA Implementation of a Universal Hash Function based Message Authentication Code”
Bo Yang, Ramesh Karri | Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY
David A. McGrew | Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA

3rd Place (tie)
“A Modular 32-Site Wireless Neural Stimulation Microsystem”
Maysam Ghovanloo and Khalil Najafi | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1st Place
“The Economical Aphotic Sieving Machine”
Kamran Kashef and Matt Hardy | Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2nd Place
“VIRAM1: A Media­Oriented Vector Processor with Embedded DRAM”
Joseph Gebis, Sam Williams, David Patterson | Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA
Christos Kozyrakis | Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

3rd Place
“SiGe Prototype Chip Design Implementing CMOS Fixed Bit-Load Drivers and Receivers for Next Generation High-Speed Board-Level Interconnect”
Jason D. Bakos, Amit Gupta, Leo Salavo, Donald Chiarulli | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA